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...dedicated Communist, was questioned for eight days before he broke. At last, on the night of Aug. 24, he admitted that the Tudeh had an organization inside the army officers' corps. On Aug. 30, cryptographers cracked two of the codes, but the third, an elaborate trigonometric cipher, would not give. Two colonels went to work night and day, in twelve-hour shifts, and on Sept. 3. code No. 3 was broken...
...Among other Soviet agents who had fled: General Walter G. Krivitsky, who escaped to the West in 1937, and was found shot to death in a Washington hotel room in 1941; Captain Victor (I Chose Freedom) Kravchenko, 1944; Soviet Cipher Clerk Igor Gouzenko, whose defection broke up a Canadian spy ring, 1945; Captain Nikolai Khokhlov, assigned to assassinate an anti-Communist Russian in West Germany, last February; and Vladimir Petrov, Soviet spy planted in the Russian embassy in Australia, last April...
Ever since he fled from Ottawa's Soviet embassy in 1945, Cipher Clerk Igor Gouzenko has been guarded by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police against Communist reprisals. Last week his Mountie guard was withdrawn. The government decided that it was no longer practical to keep watch over the Russian fugitive who exposed the Soviet spy ring in Canada...
...wonderlands in every spare moment. First in his fancy came the new and magic world of photography, and only the large shadow thrown by Lewis Carroll has prevented the Rev. Mr. Dodgson from being famed as one of the greatest of early photographers. He was also fascinated by anagrams, cipher writing, riddles, word games, puns, fantastic figures and puzzles. He loved to stir up disagreement among mathematicians with such fanciful posers as his "Problem...
...Canadian controversy over Igor Gouzenko subsided last week with neither side satisfied. In reply to a second U.S. request for an interview with the fugitive Soviet embassy cipher clerk (TIME, Nov. 30), Canada reluctantly agreed to let a U.S. Senate investigator question Gouzenko privately in Canada, but laid down the firm condition that no part of the testimony could be published without specific Canadian permission...